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In reply to the discussion: did you see abbott try and steal Joe and Jill's moment and the town told him to FO [View all]UTUSN
(77,795 posts)and he became a paraplegic. He sued the landscaper and property owner, fine, and got ($15?) millions, fine. But when he got into politics one of his earliest projects was to get a CAP of $250K put on damages for similar lawsuits.
He's been a prick on anything having to do with disadvantaged people from Day 1 - slashing services, serving donors/fatcats, refusing Federal funds for Medicaid, and on and on. But zooming to get photo ops (think "mariachis" ) with minorities after every slash. All for guns and anti-Choice, and constant flirting with White Supremacists.
But he's got a killer SMILE. Plus, besides being in a wheelchair that exempts him from criticism, he's married to a half-Latina (her mother Mexican-American; father White), such that he's also exempt from criticism on racial grounds, although she hasn't been seen since his first inauguration, while the old mother-in-law was paraded through tons of campaign ads (now deceased?).